Sutides in the Continuity of the Southern Literary Expression

FAIN: FA-11802-77

Lewis Simpson
Louisiana State University and A&M College (Baton Rouge, LA 70803-0001)

To produce a synthesis of the history of the Southern literary expression. The study will represent the culmination of a series of inquiries into the Southern expression as opposed to the New England expression. PI views the continuity of Southern letters as a result of Southern history and sees the Southern literary mind as existing in its historicity and with the view of the South as a symbol of alienation.